drmstream[writing]

Some moments cap­ture the senses and remain imprinted in an imme­di­ate and per­ma­nent way. Mer­cer Eli­ade spoke of Sacred Time, the way that rit­ual trans­ports us from our every­day expe­ri­ence of time into a state that is con­nected to our social being. I think of these moments as being ful­crum points of our iden­tity. When […]

Two recent arti­facts tickle the imag­i­na­tion and, per­haps, raise some fig­ment of our core essence. They date to 35,000 years ago. The first is a fig­urine from the Hohle Fels Cave in south­west Ger­many. The sec­ond are musi­cal instru­ments from the same site. I report the dis­cov­ery of a female mammoth-ivory fig­urine in the basal Auri­gna­cian deposit […]

For a few min­utes more I sat still in my door­way, watch­ing the sun glide into place, think­ing about the call to Regina I’d be mak­ing that day. Behind me Bil­lie was on her last song. I picked up the refrain, hum­ming a few bars. Her voice sounded dif­fer­ent to me now. Beneath the layers […]